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I would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone who is starting or continuing their studies at our faculty in the 2025/26 winter semester! I wish us all a productive semester and every success in all our teaching and research endeavors. I would particularly like to welcome our new professor, Alyia El Mansy, who will now be responsible for biblical studies (Old and New Testament) and their didactics.
The faculty breakfast (October 14, 2025), the semester opening service (October 19, 2025), the graduation ceremony (October 26, 2025), and the Reformation Day lecture with Professor Dr. Ruth Conrad from Berlin (October 30, 2025), there will be opportunities for social and professional exchange.
You are all cordially invited to attend!

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Am 28. Oktober 2025 hält Professorin Septemmy Eucharistia Lakawa einen Gastvortrag an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Münster. Lakawa ist derzeit als International Fellow am Seminar für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie in Münster. Sie ist Professorin für Missionswissenschaft, Trauma Theologie und Feministische Theologie am Jakarta Theological Seminary in Indonesien. Ihre Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen blaue Missiologie, feministisch-interkulturelle Trauma-Theologie, ästhetische Dimensionen der Heilung, Öko-Theologie und Nachhaltigkeitsethik. Prof. Lakawa war die erste Frau, die als Präsidentin das Jakarta Theological Seminary (2019–2023) leitete. Sie erhielt 2011 ihren Doktortitel in Theologie von der Boston University School of Theology mit ihrer Dissertation: “Risky Hospitality: Mission in the Aftermath of Religious Communal Violence in Indonesia”. Ihr jüngstes Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema “Compassion and Trauma: A New Imagination of Christian Mission” (2022).

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache statt und ist für alle Interessierten zugänglich.

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14-05-2025

The University of Münster's Protestant Theology is among the best in Europe: in the current QS World University Ranking, it is ranked 9th in Europe in the subject area ‘Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies’, 24th worldwide and 3rd in Germany. This confirms Münster's outstanding position in theological research and teaching - behind Heidelberg and Tübingen, which swapped places this year.

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01-04-2025

The University's Faculty of Protestant Theology mourns the loss of Jakob Wöhrle

Professor Dr Jakob Wöhrle (Tübingen) passed away unexpectedly on 25 March. After studying in Bethel, Leipzig and Münster, Wöhrle worked at the Old Testament Seminary as a research assistant to Professor Dr Rainer Albertz from 2001-2008. He then headed the project ‘Distinction and Integration in the Founding Document of Israel’ at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion & Politics’ from 2008-2012. After completing his doctorate and habilitation in Münster, he was a Heisenberg Fellow and became Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Oldenburg in 2014. Since 2019, he has been Professor of Old Testament at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Jakob Wöhrle has attracted international attention above all for his major research contributions on the dodecapropheton and the socio-historical significance of the Pentateuch. As an academic teacher, he was extremely popular and inspired numerous students for the subject and for theology with his friendly and approachable nature and his lively and motivating way of teaching.
His death came suddenly and completely unexpectedly. It is an immeasurable loss for his teacher Rainer Albertz and all his colleagues. We share our grief with his wife, Pastor Stefanie Wöhrle, and his family. The Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Münster remembers him with sadness, gratitude and friendship.
Prof Dr Arnulf von Scheliha (Dean)
Prof Dr Reinhard Achenbach and Prof Dr Christophe Nihan for the Old Testament Seminar